Kyle Harrison
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Wanting

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Author
Luke Burgis
Published
2021
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Girard’s mimetic desire, applied — O’Shaughnessy’s argument is that any investor needs to understand how it drives markets.

Where I heard about it

  • Recommended in Jim O’Shaughnessy’s investing book-recommendations thread on X (started February 2019, extended through 2021); in April 2020 — 1 Some book recommendations Rules… (tweet).

Connections

  • 1 Some book recommendations Rules… (tweet) — the thread that recommended it.